15cm ruler with 2.5mm steps
A 15cm ruler with 2.5mm steps. Small, unobtrusive, simple, and prints fast. No fancy folding. Just a ruler.
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updated March 17, 2024
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Just saw you included the SCAD file ... awesome, thanks! I made a quick remix of your design to include my tick-mark suggestion.
@BikeCyclist Awesome! I'll give your remix a shot.
One good thing you could borrow from US customary markings would be to make the 1/4 and 3/4 intermediate ticks a bit shorter than the than the 1/2 tick.
(That's a good way of signalling it's a base-of-2 division and not the usual 5 or 10 division scale at a glance.)
If you'd secretly drop your ruler with the even markings on my desk, I'd probably be very confused! :-D
Here's another interesting but slightly confusing gaming ruler (which uses 19 mm units for some weird reasons):
https://www.printables.com/model/772706-folding-gaming-ruler
@BikeCyclist Admittedly, I'm a bit of an ignoramus when it comes to ruler conventions. Before this, I don't think I'd used one in years... :D This model is "babby's first 3d printed object", because after getting the printer, I suddenly found the need to measure absolutely everything. Thanks for the advice! (edited)
@Seamato_1901164 Ah, you're going to have a lot of fun exploring 3D printing then! :-)
Printed calipers are the next step up from rulers ... I printed these for a friend, there might be similar ones of 12 cm or 15 cm length too: https://www.printables.com/model/177547-good-enough-calipers-fixed
Radius gauges are quite nifty measurement tools too, for example when one wants to fit a 3D print to existing hardware.
A tool I wish I had learned about earlier when I started out with 3D printing is the deburring tool. So much nicer than deburring with a cutter knife (though the Bambu printers print really cleanly, admittedly). Printables has tons of cases for deburring tools, showing how popular they are ... that's how I found out about them. One random example: https://www.printables.com/model/569625-deburring-tool-case-remix-for-afa-tooling-afa4000-